MSNBC's Thomas Roberts spoke with Braddock, Pennsylvania Mayor John Fetterman, who this week defied the state's ban on same-sex marriage and married his constituents John Kandray and Bill Gray:
“It's an act of civil disobedience,” said Fetterman on MSNBC Thursday. The message to Republican Gov. Tom Corbett, he said, referencing President Reagan's iconic challenge to Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, is: “Mr. Corbett, tear down this law.”
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“The legality of it really doesn't concern me,” said Fetterman, in reference to the fact that neither the state, nor the federal government currently recognizes the marriage he performed on Monday. “I think it's the message that it sends. And I think Pennsylvania is at a place now where we need to remove this from our constitution.”
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